The ripple spread out like a living pulse, and before I even realized it, my senses latched onto it.
It was as though a thousand invisible threads shot outward from me as the center, racing across the barren peaks below, the rolling plains, the dense forests, and far beyond into the skies. I felt it glide over nations, skim across seas, brush against bustling cities, and slip through the unseen folds of continents.
Every heartbeat sent my awareness farther, threading through layers of this world until, like a whisper breaking through static, I felt it, a hollow echo hidden deep within a sealed pocket of space.
My eyes snapped open. "Found you."
I stood up in a single motion, Essence igniting under my skin.
In the next instant, I was gone, streaking across the sky like a violet comet. The wind howled past me, the world below reduced to blurred streaks of green, gray, and blue.
